Benjamin Herr <b...@0x539.de> schreef op 10 april 2017 19:17:44 CEST:
>I've been putting
>
> environment.etc = {
> nixos-orig.source = ./.;
> };
>
>into my configuration.nix and for my still fairly trivial but at least
>somewhat moduralized config it seems to work out all right.
>
>
>On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 18:12 +0200, Guillaume Maudoux (Layus) wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> system.copySystemConfiguration is far from perfect. As soon as you
>> modularize your config, you will miss all the other files.
>>
>> If you want a correct system.copySystemConfiguration, you really
>> need
>> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/709.
>> It allows you to snapshot all the sources of a nix derivation, not
>> just
>> one file.
>>
>> I tested it back then, and it worked pretty well.
>>
>> -- Layus.
>>
>>
>> On 06/04/17 17:46, ni...@vince.lol wrote:
>> > No I don't have `system.copySystemConfiguration=true` set :-(
>> > Luckily I documented my recent efforts in some gists.
>> > I managed to install NixOS on ZFS here:
>> > https://gist.github.com/awesomefireduck/c763e168a62a0ef559a1fb94732
>> > 61459
>> > And my (yet untested) attempt at PCI passthrough here:
>> > https://gist.github.com/awesomefireduck/1be07805081a4d7a51c527e452b
>> > 87b26
>> > There is still some missing, but nothing I can't handle, I guess.
>> > This is a great time to enable my ZFS snapshots... :-/
>> >
>> > Does anyone know why `system.copySystemConfiguration` is set to
>> > false
>> > by default? It seems like it would be better to default this to
>> > true,
>> > right?
>> > Or at least have this listed in the generated config?
>> > (`nixos-generate-config`)
>> >
>> > Anyway, I'll be okay, thanks folks!!
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Vince
>> > On Thursday, April 6, 2017 4:58 PM, Sergiu Ivanov
>> > <siva...@colimite.fr> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi Vince,
>> > >
>> > > Thus quoth ni...@vince.lol at 14:12 on Thu, Apr 06 2017:
>> > > >
>> > > > I acidentally removed my /etc/nixos/configuration.nix is there
>> > > > any way
>> > > > I can get it back?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Citing directly from:
>> > >
>> > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28603773/recover-accidentally
>> > > -deleted-configuration-nix-file
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > '''
>> > > system.copySystemConfiguration
>> > >
>> > > If enabled, copies the NixOS configuration file $NIXOS_CONFIG
>> > > (usually
>> > > /etc/nixos/configuration.nix) to the system store path.
>> > >
>> > > Type:"boolean"
>> > >
>> > > Default:false
>> > >
>> > > Declared by: <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/activation/top-
>> > > level.nix>
>> > > '''
>> > >
>> > > Do you happen to have this option set to true?
>> > >
>> > > /me goes and sets it to true on his system
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Sergiu
>> >
>> >
>> >
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What does that do, exactly? The entry at
http://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#environment.etc.%3Cname?%3E.source is
somewhat lacking...
I made a PR at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/24707 . If some of you
could check it out and give me some feedback that’d be great :-)
cheers,
Vince
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